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Wrought iron question
August 30, 2011
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david gause
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I am wondering how old boiler plate needs to be to have been made of wrought iron.

August 31, 2011
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I don't know in years but I had some old boiler plate from an old saw mill that was abandoned and it was wrought iron. Even stamped as certified 50000. The guy cutting it up cut right through the stamp ... I wanted to make it into a buckle out of it. If you do find some think about grain orientation before cutting it up or it could be useless afterwards.
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August 31, 2011
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A.M. Byers, the last company to manufacture wrought iron, made a wrought iron plate made with layers at 90º like plywood. This gave near equal strength in all directions while maintaining the other desirable properties of wrought iron.

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September 6, 2011
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Thanks for the input. Think some of our old plate might be good; it's also out of a sawmill and I hope to end up with some of it.

September 6, 2011
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I stumbled across this on craigslist.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/.....41877.html
It's a little out of my travel range.

September 6, 2011
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into it.

September 6, 2011
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It was just mild steel. I scrapped it.

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